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January 05, 2011

Kids Color Tutorial

OK - I have had these tutorial pictures on this camera since like May last year!! I just found them and thought I'd share. I take no credit for this idea, my sister and I had talked about this. Turns out she had heard of this through school or something. I just put life to it, so that you could enjoy it too. Click on the pictures for a better view.

First you need to gather your supplies to make RE-COLORABLE COLORING BOOKS !! For my coloing pages, I printed off the Alphabet pages over at Reading With Kids.com. Since there are 26 letters, that means I will have 13 pages in this book. I got a couple 1/2 inch binders, some dry erase markers and sheet protectors with the holes prepunched. I also have some cheaper cardstock to put in the pages for a bit of stability.

First you will stuff all the pictures in the sheet protectors. I made a sandwich of sorts - coloring page, cardstock, coloring page. Then with my crop-a-dile, I punched through all the papers using the hole on the sheet protector as my template.

Then you put all the finished pages into the binder. The kids get the joy of coloring taking a Kleenex to erase and them color again. I had to take a picture of Jayden after he erased something. He would look at the Kleenex for the longest time, to try and figure out how it worked ... lol

I also made another one with all of their favorite cartoon characters - Cars, SpiderMan, Toy Story, etc. I just Googled like this {"Cartoon name" coloring pages free}. I linked those first 3 to get you started, but think of Disney princess for girls, animals, farm pictures, mighty machines, Barbie, learning numbers, etc. The possibilities are ENDLESS and when they are done with those pictures, you take them out and replace them with new ones! All I know is that my boys love them, and that is what counts. All this time later, they still color with them!

I agree with everyone else......what a faulous idea! I have printed these out before but never thought to use the sheet protectors, which I have a ton of. Now I will work on at least a book to color, dot to dot, etc. Thank you, Julie!

AWESOME JULIE! THANKS FOR SHARING, I'LL HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT AND MAKE ONE FOR A GRANDDAUGHTER! SHE LOOOOVES THOSE DISNEY PRINCESSES!
ENJOY YOUR FLORIDA TRIP!! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND THE BOYS! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Julie,
This is such a cool idea! I don't have little ones any more, or grand-kids yet, but I've already shared the link to your blog with a friend whose grand-kids will love it. I never knew anything like these free coloring pages existed. Thank you for sharing your tutorial, and the information about accessing the coloring pages. What a wonderful resource.

Hi Julie,
What a fabulous idea! I think the same idea could be applied to many other uses. I'm thinking parents could make pages to help the kids learn how to trace, print letters and numbers and start learning cursive writing. Also, how about mazes? They would be able to draw lines on the maze and try one route after another! And matching games - draw a line from a description to it's picture! And dot to dot! And the dot to dot game where you make boxes? You are right - the ideas are endless. So cool!!!
Hugs,
Linda